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Fail2ban

https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues/3567#issuecomment-2625933592

I applied your workaround to my jail.local in the first time and here is what I got:

While reading from '/etc/fail2ban/jail.local' [line 272]: option 'backend' in section 'sshd' already exists

So I had to investigate further and tried to understand what happened, trying not to break my current configuration (backend = %(sshd_backend)s). And as I am conservative and tried to keep the "Debian" configuration, the workaround I found was the one mentioned.

And I tried to share this, not to be awarded in any positive or negative manner, but trying to help.

So in one word: the workaround you gave did not sound so good to me, and the fact that fail2ban has to be tweaked before it can start at once on Debian did not help me to be confident in your solution. And the way you answer to people did not help either.


I applied your workaround to my jail.local in the first time and it did not work at once.

So I had to investigate further and tried to understand what happened, trying not to break my current configuration (backend = %(sshd_backend)s). And as I am conservative and tried to keep the "Debian" configuration, the workaround I found was the one mentioned.

And I tried to share this, not to be awarded in any positive or negative manner, but trying to help.

So in one word: the workaround you gave did not sound so good to me, and the fact that fail2ban has to be tweaked before it can start at once on Debian did not help me to be confident in your solution.

The way you answered to people did not help either.

It is always important to understand that people are not machines which just behave like computers. And why